FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 831 
Bay. No. 3133, Leland Stanford Jr. University Mu- 
seum. : 
Body moderately elongate, much compressed poste- 
riorly, about as wide as deep anteriorly, its greatest depth 
under middle of soft dorsal where the back is elevated. 
Flesh very firm, the body retaining its form, the skin 
loose but not flaccid. 
Head small, the nape not produced; mouth moderate, 
the maxillary extending to below the anterior margin of 
orbit; jaws subequal; teeth tricuspid, arranged in series 
which are nearly transverse on middle of jaws, becoming 
more and more oblique towards the sides, the outermost 
series nearly parallel with the sides of jaws; nostrils end- 
ing ina short wide tube; gill-opening short, extending 
downward to about the fifth pectoral ray, its length about 
half interorbital space; opercle ending in a flap, which 
extends over middle of gill-opening; ventral disk slightly 
longer than wide, its distance from tip of lower jaw once 
and a half its length; vent equidistant from posterior edge 
of ventral disk and front of anal; skin thick and not very 
loose. 
Origin of spinous dorsal a little in front of the vertical 
from vent, its distance from snout 3 in length of body; 
anterior part of dorsal separated by a notch; origin of 
anal about equidistant from snout and base of caudal fin; 
some of the lower rays of pectoral produced forming a 
notch in the lower posterior margin of fin, the fourth to 
the tenth of the upper rays the longest, forming a rounded 
point behind, extending slightly past the vertical from 
snout; dorsal and anal scarcely connected with the caudal; 
caudal long and slender, rounded behind. 
Color a uniform dark olive green, under parts white, a 
light streak medially along back from dorsal to occiput, a 
light spot over opercle; pectoral light at base, dusky be- 
hind; other fins colored like the body; lips white. 
